Community Corner

Poll: If Prop. 8 Were on Ballot Again, Would You Vote to Ban Gay Marriage?

In 2008, Californians backed amendment to ban same-sex marriages. Have you changed?

President Barack Obama came out of his “evolving” views closet Wednesday by concluding, in an ABC News interview, that “for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, who has a lesbian daughter, said he applauded the president: “I know it’s a difficult political position, but he’s on the right side—and history will judge him that way.” Yet California voters—along with a 4-0 vote by the Grossmont Union High School District board—turned thumbs down on gay marriage via Proposition 8 in 2008. Have your views evolved?

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